Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 144

144.

After discussing various matters with Duke James, I headed to the palace with Olivia and Gail.

Olivia accompanied me today for my training.

Training with her was exciting and delightful, but today my thoughts were entirely focused on my father.

‘Eric, Jane, Gordon… the annihilation of three Sword Master families.’

I contemplated how to respond to this new history that I hadn’t written.

As I felt the overwhelming presence of Ron Carl Leord, which I had momentarily forgotten, I couldn’t possibly expect those three families to survive their destruction.

The date for the Eastern Expedition wasn’t far off. My father was planning to depart in alignment with my expedition schedule, and if his goal was to remove the Sword Masters from the battlefield, he would undoubtedly adjust my marching speed as well.

It wouldn’t be difficult to adjust the schedule so that the Sword Masters would inevitably have to return to protect their families at the appropriate time.

“Gail.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“Those three families will be destroyed, right?”

There wasn’t a hint of doubt in Gail’s voice.

“His Majesty is leading the Empire’s best elites to the battlefield himself. The annihilation of those three families won’t even take a day.”

“I’m newly reminded of Father’s greatness. Sword Master families are by no means easy to deal with, yet he can annihilate three families in just one day, even with the Empire’s elites.”

“His Majesty is looking towards a realm beyond Sword Master. A realm that no one in the long history of humanity has ever set foot in.”

I already knew he was amazing, and yet I recalled the first expedition when he retreated.

“Why did Father retreat? He could have pushed forward and conquered the Pyreon Kingdom.”

Questions kept piling up.

I shook my head as if to dismiss Gail’s answer.

“It just gives me a headache. Let’s leave it to Ken to guess Father’s intentions, and Gail and I will focus on our roles. As soon as we get back, let’s check the preparations for the Eastern Expedition and leave a little earlier.”

Gail agreed with me.

He didn’t seem to like complicated thinking either.

“Yes, Your Highness. I will prepare immediately.”

I turned my gaze to Olivia.

“I apologize for troubling you this morning, Lady Olivia.”

“Not at all, Your Highness. I’m just concerned that Your Highness will have less time for training.”

I smiled gently.

“Were you only planning to teach me until the expedition?”

Olivia shook her head in surprise.

“Of course, I was planning to continue teaching you even after the expedition.”

“That’s a relief. Even if I can’t see the full effect of swordsmanship in this expedition, there will be another battlefield. The Empire still has a lot of territory to expand, and Father… won’t stop.”

My father’s desire for conquest will continue until the moment he dies.

Even when Karen occupied most of the Empire, my father never gave up. He worked tirelessly to reclaim the vast territory of the Empire and unify the continent under the name of Calpheon.

‘Father’s real purpose.’

I was lost in thought atop Zilpung [his magical steed].

I feel it whenever I think deeply about someone. How strangely I wrote the story. My father is clearly as important a figure as Karen, yet it was hard to guess his mind.

How deeply did I think and write about the character Ron Carl Leord?

I wrote as I went, just grasping the idea that he was the scariest and strongest person, so there was no way I could know his mind.

Even before Arun Carl Leord, and even now, I was still struggling with a frustrating view as if trapped in a fog.

‘If I don’t know his mind, let’s check Father’s actions.’

I resolved to input more information about my father into my head, starting with this Eastern Expedition. The Empire revolves around my father.

Before Karen appeared, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that not only the Empire but the entire continent revolved solely around Ron Carl Leord.

I am the Crown Prince of that Empire.

To solidify my position as Crown Prince and successfully succeed my father, it is most important to know my father well.

The pace of Zilpung heading to the palace quickened on its own.

It’s a magical creature.

As if reading my mind, Zilpung began to run towards the Imperial Palace.

Even so, Zilpung showed a demeanor of maintaining a speed that allowed Gail and Olivia to follow along adequately.

The sun rose to the middle of the sky, and I returned to the Crown Prince’s Palace.

As I entered the palace, I told Olivia the schedule.

“Would you like to have lunch first and rest for a while? I think I’ll have to catch up on pending work and sort out some personal matters, so training will only be possible in the late afternoon.”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

“I’m sorry for making you wait.”

Olivia smiled.

I left Olivia and Gail behind and headed to my office.

As soon as I entered, I opened my writing notes.

Ron Carl Leord.

I set aside the chapters that meticulously recorded the life of the final boss.

“That’s a lot.”

As the most important figure after Karen, it was only natural that I would remember a lot.

Most of my memories were focused on his actions.

‘There’s almost nothing about his childhood.’

-Ron Carl Leord, the prince of a rural kingdom, lost his family while experiencing the Warring States Period [a time of constant warfare and political fragmentation]. The small kingdom could not withstand the era of repeated wars. Ron Carl Leord, who lived a difficult life after the kingdom was destroyed, knew better than anyone that he was a genius.

-He was unhindered in everything he did, as if he were walking a predetermined path, and he quickly grasped the continent in his hands without a single crisis during the process of building power and founding a nation.

“I really liked that series of destruction and annihilation. First of all, it doesn’t make sense that a genius would let his kingdom be destroyed. Seriously… what a mess.”

I sighed at my own patheticness and slowly read about my father.

It was different than before.

“Why did Father build the Empire?”

First, I thought about the fundamental question.

* * *

I visited the Imperial Palace library after a long time. I was reading a book called The History of the Calpheon Empire.

-The Daier Kingdom in the northern part of the continent was a small rural kingdom that neighboring lords barely knew the name of.

-The head of the Daier family, which had a territory so small that it was embarrassing to call it a kingdom, boldly declared the establishment of a kingdom.

-In the Warring States Period, when all the lords boasted of their power and kingdoms were established and destroyed every day, the news of the founding of the Daier Kingdom was not of great interest.

It was natural that the story of my father, the founding emperor, would come first in the history book of the Calpheon Empire.

The content was not much different from my writing notes.

‘Was it the Daier family? My father’s surname is Leord.’

The Daier family would naturally be the genealogy of the Daier surname, so it meant that my father changed his surname in the middle.

‘Father wouldn’t have been ashamed of being from a small rural kingdom. If that were his personality, he wouldn’t have defied the aristocracy and employed commoners and slaves according to their merits or given them titles.’

Before I knew it, I was deeply absorbed in finding out about my father.

Because the history of one human being can be so brilliant is never common in this era or in the world I lived in.

It was very interesting to learn about my father’s life according to the footprints of time.

-After the Daier Kingdom was founded, a son was born. The queen had a dream of seeing a shooting star falling from the sky, and she said that the red shooting star covered the entire sky, sucking everything in and falling into the Daier Kingdom. The king was pleased with this and named his son Ron.

“A prenatal dream [a dream experienced during pregnancy, believed to foretell the child’s future].”

I don’t really believe in prenatal dreams. It was the same in the history of any empire to embellish the birth of the founding emperor to make it more mysterious.

What I paid attention to was the Daier Kingdom.

As I read through the history, it seemed that the Daier Kingdom had survived the Warring States Period for longer than I thought.

-In the year Ron turned fifteen, he freely used swordsmanship, magic, and spiritism, so the prince of the Daier Kingdom quickly gained fame throughout the northern part of the continent.

“Maybe.”

-The neighbors around did not want a new star to appear in the Warring States Period. Hearing the rumor that Ron had drawn an Aura Blade from his sword, twelve families gathered.

I closed the history book for a moment.

Why does the Kingdom Alliance come to mind?

North, twelve families!

I took a breath and continued reading from where I had left off.

-The elite of the twelve families attacked the Daier Kingdom, and only the prince survived that day. The prince cut down eight of the twelve family heads, but the Daier Kingdom was too small. The prince, left alone, promised the future and came down to the center of the continent.

Below that, the list of the twelve families was listed, and as expected, they were the families that are the roots of the current Kingdom Alliance.

“What a terrible fate.”

I finally learned the fundamental reason why the Kingdom Alliance in the northeast has been stubbornly holding out even in the midst of the Empire’s expansion.

The Kingdom Alliance and my father could not coexist.

They destroyed my father’s family, and eight of the twelve families lost their heads to my father’s sword.

And the families of Eric, Jane, and Gordon were among those eight families.

‘Maybe these three Sword Masters won’t return to their families even after hearing the news of Father’s departure.’

As I studied history anew, new information was created, and the number of variables that could be judged increased.

“Your Highness.”

I turned my gaze to the voice behind me.

The vassal [a subordinate or servant] in charge of the Imperial Palace library bowed and said.

“It’s almost time to close the library. How about borrowing the books you haven’t finished reading or coming back tomorrow to read the books that cannot be checked out?”

“Of course, I can borrow this history book, right?”

The History of the Calpheon Empire, the content that will definitely be taught in the academy, there was no reason not to borrow it.

The answer was unexpected.

“The History of the Calpheon Empire is a book that is prohibited from being checked out.”

“A history book? Don’t they teach it at the academy?”

If it was used as a book commonly called a textbook, there was no reason to prohibit access to it at the Imperial Palace library.

“His Majesty ordered the book to be written separately and ordered it to be kept in the library until after his death. The history books for academy education are different from this.”

“Then anyone can see it…….”

“Only the Crown Prince can read it. Other imperial grandchildren are not allowed to read it.”

The vassal, who looked somewhat strict, smiled faintly.

“His Majesty ordered that it be kept normally with other books, so we didn’t keep it separately and left it as it was. Most people thought it was for academy education, so they didn’t read it, but Your Highness read it for the first time today.”

“It’s complicated. Okay, I understand. I’ll come again tomorrow.”

“Yes.”

The vassal took the book from me and put it back in its original place.

The vassal bowed deeply to me as I left the library.

The moon was already up when I came outside.

Only then did I realize that I had completely forgotten about Olivia.

“Ah, training!”

I quickly moved to the Crown Prince’s Palace.

“It looks like you’re coming from the library.”

It was my father’s voice.

I quickly turned around and bowed.

“Father.”

“Are the preparations for the expedition going well?”

“We are preparing without any setbacks.”

“It looks like it’s not dinner time yet, so let’s eat together.”

Who would refuse whose suggestion?

“Yes, Father. May I go to the palace for a moment to deliver the news?”

“Have this child do it.”

Father pointed to the shadow.

I hesitated for a moment, but I had no choice but to open my mouth.

“Lady Olivia will be at the palace. I was so engrossed in my book that I forgot our promise. Please tell her that I am very sorry.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The shadow flickered and disappeared.

‘He’s not ordinary.’

My father pointed to the destination with his chin.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes, Father.”

“What book did you read in the library? It must have been quite interesting to forget your promise with the lady.”

I thought about lying, but I just answered honestly.

“I read the history book of the Empire.”

A strange smile spread across my father’s face.

“Is that so?”